Market Share - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 3, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608081 Blogging at BzzAgent Harvard Business School Case 508-102 BzzAgent is a word-of-mouth marketing firm. The founder, Dave Balter, sees blogs as an important way to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Oct 2001
News

New Economy Notables: Peter C. Wendell

Park, California, company boasts an impressive list of multibillion dollar market cap successes, including Healtheon, Intuit, Micromuse, and Strata- Com. Wendell passes his craft on to students enrolled in a popular second-year venture... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Finance

01 Jun 2018
News

Up by the Roots

intent on what Gotsch and her colleague, a senior capital markets consultant at Accenture, had to say—or more precisely, what they had come to ask: Where, exactly, do you look for new and innovative financial technology? The response was... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Dan Page

01 Mar 2005
News

Ideas: Books

finds that while before 1930 the Colombian government granted United Fruit generous concessions and helped repress labor unionism, after 1930 the company, responding to growing nationalism, a stronger labor movement, and increasing demands from local leaders for a... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

Profile

Katy Lankester

entrepreneurial, but large enough to matter. That led me away from pharma and devices, to payer, provider and services. It also helped me identify what type of role I was interested in, because the courses exposed me to areas from View Details

Keywords: Health Care

22 Oct 2015
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: 3M

3M’s Business Development, Sales and Marketing functions. Members of this leadership development program lead individual internal consulting projects across the company’s 27 divisions to drive growth and profitability through a variety of... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

14 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

The World in Your Palm?

features. "Do I want my business phone to play music?" The key to living in a multiple-device life is a standard way of sharing information between devices, such as via data cards and network communication, said Susan K.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Don’t Lose Money With Customers

series of articles and HBS Working Papers, he explores the process of how firms in business-to-business markets manage customer relationships. As a frame of reference, Narayandas explains that modern View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

01 Jun 2014
News

Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy

Bookalokal can capture many midsized markets where it will confront fewer rivals, it will be in a strong position to eventually partner with big-city victors to create a shared platform that allows travelers... View Details

18 Jul 2014
News

Team Players

"I'll take that bet." Despite having come off a solid win as chief marketing officer of the NY/NJ Super Bowl Host Committee, Amy Aronoff Blumkin (MBA 1988), isn't talking about football. She's recounting what she told her boss at AT&T... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

28 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 28

they cannot spend on marketing the way their competitors do. The case invites students to explore an unusual business model in both concept and execution. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/609106-PDF-ENG Pfizer:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Jun 2020
News

Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic

prominent African business leaders, including several HBS alumni who shared insights on macroeconomics, strategy, leadership, and execution relevant to Africa. The webinars were targeted to a business audience and emphasized... View Details

01 Mar 2018
News

March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

Alumni Books Dress Like a Million from Goodwill: The Ultimate Recycle Store by Jean Kelley (OPM 29, 2000) (JKLA Publishing) Goodwill stores are the ultimate retail location for getting great deals on name brand clothing. In this book, the author View Details

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VCPE Database Comparison | Baker Library

US GEOs as Preqin is non-US owned (e.g. greater metro area categories often not available) Great for portfolio companies, really helpful "collections" (verticals) but often tech-specific Great all-around company database with granular screening criteria. Can also save... View Details

01 Dec 2013
News

HBX: Expanding Our Reach

In the last few years, the landscape for online learning has changed dramatically. Using new and ever more powerful technologies, the market is shifting rapidly, with many dozens of organizations, aggregators, and educational institutions... View Details

Keywords: online learning; curriculum; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

30 Jan 2012
News

Shopping Around

Europe. In an interview published in the July 24, 2011 London Sunday Times, the U.S.-born Calabrese, who taught business and marketing to high schoolers in Charles County, Maryland, before a late-1970s career change to commercial property... View Details

Keywords: real estate; shopping; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2000
News

Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow

convenient place to shop ("7-Eleven is more convenient, but it doesn't have the retail share Wal-Mart has"), the discount retailer gained market supremacy by proclaiming, and delivering, "always the lowest... View Details

01 Apr 1997
News

Manager's Notebook

one time, consumers readily shared personal information. Recently, however, many customers have begun to bristle when asked personal questions. They wonder: Who else is privy to this information? What's in it for me? In their 1996 working... View Details

Keywords: Judith Ross

22 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon

entrepreneus. Sean Silverthorne: First off, can you summarize your previous research findings? Maria Roche: Our first finding is that an increase in the unemployment rate is associated with a substantial rise in the share of entrepreneurs... View Details